The University of Florida doctoral student and teaching assistant who was
shot by a campus police officer late Tuesday was still being treated at
Shands at the University of Florida on Wednesday morning. His prognosis was
not available on Wednesday morning.

Meanwhile police and administrators were working to piece together what may
have precipitated the student's behavior.

Kofi Adu-Brempong, a 35-year-old doctoral student in geography from Ghana,
was shot Tuesday night during an altercation with police after he
apparently barricaded himself into his unit at Corry Village family housing
on campus. Adu-Brempong is facing charges of aggravated assault with a
deadly weapon without intent to kill and five counts of resisting an
officer with violence, according to Alachua County court records.

Police Chief Linda Stump said officers had also been in contact with
Adu-Brempong on Monday, but details on that contact were not immediately
available. Stump said the incident began at 8:17 p.m. and marked the first
time in at least a quarter century that a campus office had fired on
someone on campus.

"I do know that our officers had an on-again, off-again dialogue with him
until about 10 p.m.," Stump said. "When we lost contact with him, out
officers made the decision to enter his apartment."

Once inside, officers said they found Adu-Brempong wielding a pipe and a
large knife.

According to Stump, officers from her agency's Critical Incident Response
Team - CIRT - made multiple attempts to subdue him with a Taser and by
firing bean bags before team member Officer Keith Smith fired his AR 15,
striking Adu-Brempong, who was immediately taken to Shands.

In keeping with department policy, Smith has been placed on administrative
leave pending an internal investigation into the incident, Stump said.
Several residents of neighboring apartments were evacuated and many
remained elsewhere overnight, police said. Some of the evacuated apartments
were considered a part of the crime scene, according to the Florida
Department of Law Enforcement. FDLE agents were at the scene Tuesday night
and said they would be conducting the criminal investigation into the
shooting and the events that led up to it.

Staff members from Student Service were called to the scene to talk with
affected students. UF officials said Student Services employees are also
scheduled to be at the classes that Adu-Brempong taught as a teaching
assistant. Adu-Brempong's research areas include urban geography, urban and
regional analysis and planning and spatial analysis and modeling with a
research topic in urban spatial change in Ghana and implications for
environmental sustainability, according to UF's Web site.

On the professional network LinkedIn, Adu-Brempong lists his education at
UF from 2005 through 2009.

Another site where students rate professors is complimentary of
Adu-Brempong. One entry from November 2009 said he likes to be called "The
True Son of Africa" and is "an amazing guy."

"He's a really great guy to just talk to after class and he really enjoys
teaching," the entry stated.
Staff writer Lise Fisher contributed to this report.
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